Vocab

2. a mountain rising from the ocean floor that has not reached the surface of the water and is not considered an island
6. the removal or extraction of salt from water to make it drinkable
9. underwater mountains formed by a divergent plate boundary
10. Shelf the area around a continent that is more shallow than the open ocean
12. the slope that starts at the outer edge of the continental shelf and ends at the ocean floor
14. the direction of ocean water flowing that depends on the wind and earth’s rotation
15. a plain on deep ocean floor that lies generally between the continental rise and mid-ocean ridge
16. a powerful, warm current that originates at the tip of Florida

1. a current deep in the ocean caused by density
3. white crystal salt soluble in water that is gotten from seawater and mineral deposits
4. a region of rapid changing temperature
5. the area between the continental slope and the abyssal plain
7. how much salt water contains
8. method for detecting submerged objects
11. when subsurface cold, denser water replaces warm, less dense surface water
13. a valley formed by a continental- continental convergent boundary
14. the deepest part of the ocean